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Chicago examiner sunday Chicago october 12 1913 vol xiv no 15 a m sunday price five cents hoyne puts triple guard on funk case documents prosecutor fears theft attempt on material evidence in con spiracy case preserved in the criminal courts building one of usual three guards said to have been approached by interests friendlyto defense six men now patrol room a plot backed by an enormous sum of money ami inspired from desperation was revealed yesterday to state's at torney maclaj hoyne and he instantly trebled the guard about his office leav ing three picked men heavily armed con stantlj on duty within and about the of fice at every moment of the twenty-four hours the plot is to tale by violence if nec essary every document in the prosecutor's office bearing on the so-called funk case the case in which attorney daniel dona hoe aileen heppusr and isaac steifel are charged with conspiracy to defame clarence s fur.k former general man aget of the international harvester com pany the case is intimately connected with the william lorlmer senatorial srandal the states attorney intimated that this plan to break into his office and blow open the safe has been ill consideration since the failure of attempts to influ ence bis direction of the prosecution of the conspirators in a statement issued last night to the newspapers mr hoyne declared positively that he knew of the existence of the plot to crush the prosecution by stealing the records and he added that the con jftracy is engineered either by the de fense or by the friends of the defense includes many interests the term friends o the defence in lude the interest which backed the ori ginal attack upon funk's character funk was sued by john c henning an ob scure hotel employe for alleged aliena tion of the affections of mrs henning it was proved overwhelmingly that funk knew nothing of mrs henuing and that the heuning suit originated in fraud henning disappeared just as the verdict was brought in and traveled secretly ibout the country always with plenty of money which is now believed to have ome from these same friends of the defense mr hoyne intimated that one of the men guarding his office had been ap proached with the purpose of learning whether access to the private office of the state's attorney might not be ob tained supposedly on some night was it the plan to blow open the bafe he was asked i have not learned that much so far he said that probably would be the last resort after other measures failed charges plot is known there is a deliberate plot on foot eaid state's attorney hoyue last night on the part of the defense or friends of the defense to abstract from the safe in the state's attorney's office the min utes of the grand jury in the aileen hep ner isaac steifel and daniel donahoe cases / tiie seriousness of this was so ap parent that i took cognisance of it and tool the proper steps to prevent it here tofore three policemen have been guard ing my office one being one duty each eivrht hours this guard has been in creased sii there are three there now ra eai-ii shift believes it safe now mr hoyne would not admit that he suspects any of the three guards who bare been stationed regularly at his of fice but the fact that one of them was approached and found honest is taken to indicate that others might also be ap proached and if the guard were sud denly changed for any reason a new comer might prove approachable but with three constantly on duty it is be lieved the office will be well protected both from violence and from dishonesty mr hoyne believes that the plan was to use dynamite if bribery failed only three persons besides himself he says know the combination of his safe he is fertain that none of the three could be influenced and the only recourse left would he the explosive stanley waterloo noted writer who died last night of pneumonia af ter being stricken at his club on wednesday von wied is out for throne of albania prince decides to make race for kingdom special cable to the examiner bucharest oct 11 after a lengthy interview with king charles to-day prince a'ou wied announced that he had decided to accept the uomiuatiou for the albanian throne it is expected that his candidacy will be received with mor favor than any of the others so far an nounced seek direct naming of u s president popular government league mem bers begin their campaign washington oct 11 the national popular government league began its publicity campaign here to-day the or ganization which is pledged to radical political reform was launched by sen ators chamberlain of oregon and meyers of montana representatives keating of colorado and other prominent legislators the league will campaign for the direct election of president and vice president an easier means of amending the consti tution mandatory direct primaries the preferential ballot and effective corrupt practices acts radium cost cut in half by mesothorium doctors find a substitute for most precious mineral itadiuui is getting cheap early in the present year says the journal ol the american medical asso ciation radium broinid sold at 105 per milligram in germany in july however sales were made in vienna at about half that price this startling drop the journal says is not due to an increased supply but to a decrease in the demand the doctors are using mesothorium at i2 a milli gramâ€”in place of radium waterloo dies at 67 after 3 days illaness author and journalist stricken by pneumonia while talking to opie read on genius round table one of last two survivors of noted circle leaves many works stanley waterloo died last night al most in the way he would have liked to die â€” for the transition from vigorous as sociation with his friends men of letters and adventure was a quick transition wednesday he was at the Chicago press club in his favorite corner chat ting with his old comrade in literature opie read discussing a little wistfully the work of the newer school of writers the youngsters and they took him away from the press club on a stretcher it was six o'clock last evening when he died it was pneumonia waterloo was sixty-seten years old for more than forty years he was active in literature iu big political movements in journalism in round table of genius there was in Chicago a distinct literary school of which waterloo was a mem ber it was composed of men brilliant of mind kindly of heart quick of wit and sympathy bohemian in the mean ing that the word possessed before the multitude of unthinking imitators made a mendacious label of it stanley waterloo was a charter mem ber of that informal gronp among the others were kugene field james whit comb riley opie read will visscher charles g seymour ben king â€” a round table of genius with the passage of years the gronp diminished until the remnants of it coul;l be seated at the smallest tables in the restaurants where they once had crowded each other opie read an.t waterloo were the survivors now read is the survivor left alone with the youngsters they were soberly talking of water loo last night at the press club looking over the row of his books in the library â€” a han and a woman an odd situa tion the story of ah honest money armagedon the wolk's long howl the launching of a man the seekers 1 the story of a strange career these are my jewels a record of labor and art incomplete though it is started as reporter and they spoke a little less intimately of his poetry â€” because waterloo had an other attitude toward poetry it was the language in which he told things to him self it was something sacred and secret he seldom published his verses and many of them he would not even show to his friends he started in Chicago just after his graduation from the university of mich igan that was in 18g9 for two years he worked in Chicago as a reporter later he owned the journal in st louis he sold that and afterward edited suc cessively the republic the chronicle and the globe-democrat in st louis he founded the st paul minu day but disposed of it to come back to Chicago funeral is planned Chicago was his habitat however au'i of late years the Chicago press club has been almost home to him twice ho has been its president the first time be ing in 1893 the year of the world's fair the press club will have a major part in the funeral services and the body will be buried in the press club lot at mount hope cemetery miss ada c sweet manager of the woman's department of the equitable life assurance society was one of wa terloo's best friends and she is in charge ot the body a press club committee will assist her flames spread over springfield business center half million loss in first hour of dangerous biaze fire men are hurt springfield 111 oct 12 fire shortly after midnight destroyed the s mendenhall building at the corner of seventh and adams streets in the heart of the downtown district it spread to adjoining buildings and caused a loss of half a million dollars the flames could not be controlled when the walls of the mendenhall build ing fell with i thunderous noise the great crowd which had gathered surged back and several persons were slightly injured several firemen were hurt but there were no fatalities reported the flre destroyed the james a jones building the johnson-hatcher store on the west and gutted the m j bartel building next to the jones building the smoke and flre also did tremendous dam age to the john bressmer company's stock at 1 o'clock it looked like the east sec tion of the business district was in danger new body of land in arctic discovered head of russian government ex plorers reports find st michael alaska oct 11 the russian goverament steamers taimyr and waygatch under commander willt sky which have been engaged iu arctic exploration north of siberia for three years arrived here to-day for coal cap tain wilitsky reports the discovery of a body of land as large as greenland ex tending beyond latitude 81 north and longitude 102 east king honors marconi and d'annunzio inventor and poet are appointed to senate special cable to the examiner rome oct 11 guglielmo marconi inventor of wireless telegraphy and ga brielle d'annuuzi thte world-renowned poet and dramatist have been honored by king victor for their illustrious work by appoiutnient as senators others in the list of fifty new senators named by the king are military and naval duets who distinguished themselves in the war with turkey the office of senator has a life tenure man 105 credits rye bread and milk polish blacksmith gives rule of health at birthday party lazarus finkelsteiu celebrated his 105th birthday yesterday he welcomed five sons four daughters twenty-four grand children and thirty-two great-grandchil dren at his home 218 south seeley avenue i eeldom eat other than rye bread and milk he said i was born in poland and worked as a blacksmith we never had rich foods i attribute my long life to eating sparingly mr fiukelstein came to Chicago forty years ago taxis take cabby's living from him old-time driver in court for non support tells judge the reason edward dolan old-time cabby brought before judge l'hlir in the court of domestic relations charged with non support of his second wife and fifteen year-old daughter said the taxicab had put him out of business dr anna dwyer court physician found husband and wife victims of tuberculosis and un able to work mrs dolan was consigned to the catholic charities and dolan was ordered to return to his son's home at 1430 west fiftieth street one dying opponent shot in street duel archer avenue and cana street scene of shooting anthony dingo 256 west twenty-third place was shot and probably fatally wounded and michael alasl was shot in the jaw last night in a revolver duel at archer avenue and south canal street huerta by arrest of foes is dictator machine guns moved to palace i and troops patrol capital i n j fear calm caused by thej shock may break into storm provisional president's action in dissolving the chamber of deputies gives him apparent advantage over felix diaz special cable to the examiner mexico city oct 11 provisional president victoriano huerta is to-night dictator of mexico his action dissolv ing the chamber of deputies and arrest ing all deputies except those allied with the catholic party has given him the sole power of government of the republic mexico city has recovered from the shoclc of huerta's latest coup and to night a calm has settled over the cap ital by many it is felt to be the calm before the storm but what the effect of a storm would be no person here dares proplesy tonight the leading question to-night is what will felix diaz do when he arrives at vera cruz and is informed of the con dition v by imprisoning all but the catholic deputies huerta has clearly indicated that he will support the candidacy of gamboa at the presidential election october 2g in the meantime diaz is neartng mexican shores and has announced he will be a candidate for president with the support of huerta who con trols the government and political machin ery of practically every state except those in the north which seceded gamboa's election is assured improves gamboa's chances the privateiy expressed opinion of a prominent mexican politician is that hu erta seized upon this opportunity to dis solve the chamber as the only means of throwing the majority of the political power into his own hands thus enabling him to elect gamboa by an overwhelming majority huerta believes that such au election will indicate that the larger por tion of tlie republic has been pacified and allowed to express itself freely at the polls as there will not be sufficient time to hold elections to elect new depu ties before october 6 there will be no chamber of deputies to investigate the election or to interfere with auy plaus the administration may have the families and friends of the impris oned deputies are gravely concerned over what disposition will be made of the prisoners but huerta has several times assured all that he will guarantee that no physical harm comes to them the penitentiary is surrounded t>y a heavy military guard the city is quiet to-night morp so than it has been for many months hundreds of police and soldiers both infantry and cavalry are patroling the streets pre pared to put down any uprising rapid-fire guns at palace the rapid-fire guns which were placed in the palace last february and later withdrawn were returned to-day on every hand there is evidence that the government is prepared to resist any in surgent movement all newspapers issued in the city to-day either remained strictly impartial in their discussion of the event or were strongly sympathetic with the huerta policy minister of foreign affairs moheuo who was the leader of the government deputies until hu^rta offered him a place in the cabinet said to-night that huerta took his action against the deputies when it was learned that there was a plot afoot in the chamber to put huerta out | of the way and allow a revolution iu the i north to triumph rly to-day a great throng surged about i the chamber from which the deputies j were v.nceremoniously taken last uigut j but after looking at the windows for a i time the crowd gradually melted away i there was no demonstration owing to the presence of a large guard of troops deputies reported freed vf.ita cruz mexico oct 11 au un confirmed report reached here to-night from mexico city that the 110 deputies arrested and imprisoned laat night oy j orders of president huerta have been set i free feeling is reported as running very j high in the capital to-day following the j circulation of the report of the investi i gation of the murder of senator doinin | guez and the publication of excerpts from the speech denouncing huerta which h delivered on the day before his disap pearancs king alfonso is mysteriously hurt special cable to the examiner madkid oct 11 that tng alfonso is suffering fioin a mysterious injury of tiie leg became known to-day the kiug could not attend the state ball in honor of president poineare at carthageua oa sino because of his injury city series note no session of the federal grand jury was held yesterday various men ou the grand jury stated friday that they had business affairs at their domes that they wished to attend to and at their sug gestion adjournment was taken until holiday list of cabin passengers on board burned steamship paptain barr the rostron of the v volturno disaster who came to the res cue of burning ship with the carmania antoine armande eleven antoine a eleven eberle hedwig forty-eight farber jossel fifteen friedman hinde nineteen krug john thirty-two krug frieda twenty-nine kaplan esther nineteen mrzygod marriana seventeen reimer rubin aged twenty sabfin michael forty-seven sabfin leibe fifty-four , tepper carl forty-five tepper hode sixteen tepper berl fourteen tepper emma nine tepper tarke eight facts and figures in loss of volturno in fire at sea rj->otal number of persons on â– *â– board turned vessel first cabin passengers 24 steerage passengers 540 crew 93 total 657 rescued by ten liners 521 missing 13s the vessels carrying survivors are due approximately as fol loios krtjonland at new york oct 16 rappahannock at st john oct 16 carmania at liverpool oct 12 la touraine at havre oct 12 minneapolis at london . oct 13 czar at rotterdam oct 14 narragansett freighter at london oct 17 devonian at liverpool ... oct 14 grosser kurfurst at bre men oct 15 seydlitz freighter destination uncertain the first call of the volturno was we are on fire and will have to abandon ship can hold on for a while s o s the s o s call wag heard by the carmania seventy-eight miles away and by other ship's within the zone and answered it was sent out about 8 o'clock thursday morning the car mania made twenty miles an hour through the storm and was there at noon the grosser kurfurst and the s^yrlitz a german tramp reached her at 4 o'clock seven other ships â€” la touraine minneapolis rappahancock gzar narragansett devonian and kroonlnd â€” reached her by night time the passengers were taken off and more than 500 lives saved on friday it was possible only through the use of the wireless crisis at hand in woodruff's illness condition of new yorker is de clared very grave xf.w york oct 11 the condition of timothy l fl oodruff who was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago was re ported tonight to be very grave my father is now ou the verge of a grave crisis and one which perhaps will last three or lour days said john l woodruff son of the sick man to-night we of course sincerely hope that he will pass safely through t;.is crisis f m moore arrested for taking away son chicagoan is released after being detained in new york nsw yoitk out 11 ferdinand m moore of Chicago traveling with his five-year-old sou alfred and on the way to brazil where his father owns a rubber plantation was arrested on his arrival here to-day on advices from the Chicago chief of police october 8 statins that moore is wanted there for taking away the boy without the mother's per mission moore was amazed at his arrest and explained that everything was lovely at home that his wife was perfectly will ing the toy should go on the trip and that she herself was to follow to brazil to rejoin the family in a year he added that since the eig hth of the month he and the boy had been seeing the sights | at buffalo and n:agara falls the first steamer leaving october lu Chicago was notified but no answer from the police there had come up to mldnipht so at that hour magistrate house in the night court ordered the re lease of moore and his son who went to a hotel to remain until the steamer sails president has neuralgia washington oct 11 i'resiiient wilson remained in the white house ti day denying himself to all cullers as be was suffering from a slight attack of neuralgia he was attended by dr cary 521 rescued by wireless 1 36 die as liner burns s o s summons ten ships to res cue carmania takes off sur vivors in raging storm and will reach queenstown to-day crowded lifebÂ®ats are smashed against side of vessel oil boat helps to still waters lost ship not up to u s safety standard special cable to the examiner ' - liverpool oct 11 â€” one hundred and thirty-six persons lost their lives when the steamship vol turno of the uranium line was destroyed at sea on friday after having been on fire for twenty-four hours ten steamships surrounded the volturno for sixteen hours while the fire raged at its height but none of the rescue fleet was able to lend assistance owing to the terrific storm the volturno sailed from rotterdam for new york via halifax on october 2 she carried twenty-four cabin passen gers 540 steerage and a crew of ninety-three of the 657 known to have been on board 521 have been reported saved by the ten vessels the greatest loss of life occurred when four of the volturno's six life boats were dashed to pieces against the side of the vessel a few mo ments c.fter they were launched other lifeboats launched from the rescue fleet were also crushed by the waves calm after explosion early friday morning a terrific explosion in the volturno's boiler room almost rent the vessel in ha when this occurred the passengers on the stricken ship believed they were doomed while the captains of the vessels which had rushed to the rescue could see little chance of saving those on the burning ship suddenly the gale abated and the sea calmeu considerably within a few moments a score of lifeboats had been launched from the vessels standing by and were rushing to ward the stern of the volturno where the passengers and crew were huddled against the rail when the volturno was abandoned friday morning she was seen to be grad ually sinking her position was then about 900 miles northeast of cape race and close to the spot where the ttitanic sank eighteen months ago never before has such a disaster been witnessed by so many spec tators hundreds see disaster huddled on the eight ocean liners a german tramp and a standard oil tank steamer which heard the volturno's s o s distress call by wireless were several hundred persons who unmindful of the bit ing cold of the gale and the danger from the huge waves which crashed over the vessels remained on deck throughout the afternoon and night to watch the fire all during thursday night one searchlight from the cunarder car mania was kept steadily on the vol turno while another played over the ten vessels that surrounded the stricken ship the cries of those on the volturno were carried by the gale and the passengers on all of the other vessels could see the women and children huddled close to the volturno's after rail while the men stood nearer the fire gets wireless call that so many were rescued from the volturno was due to the prompt efficient work of captain barr of the carmania the wireless opera tor on the carmania picked up a i faint <- s o s call shortly after i noon on thursday the position of i rlie volturno was given and the fol 1 lowing message was flashed 1 come quick ship afire fear m are doomed Chicago and vicinity ris r â€” â– . ing temperature sunday moderate t 6 winds mostly southwest p > xal 1 range of temperature yesterday sxill\&/j3 highest 69 q j n lowest .~ 4g w^^^*si_4s average 58 b<i '"â– "â€¢â€¢'' â– â– 'â€¢' : i .'. this edition consists of i news 6 city life b want ads 2 news . fabm lands beaxi estate s spobts j editorial financial 4 society fiction 9 magazine s cable pbama 10 comics autos music 1 t y f some employer oners a position to you do you know that there are more positions r open in Chicago than there are people to fill them do you know that employers are asking for your 4 services â€” now ]â€¢ j look to-day and see what situations are ready '.'. for you look in the help wanted columns of '! to-day's examiner don't lay this paper aside % x until you have picked out the situation that you 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Chicago examiner sunday Chicago october 12 1913 vol xiv no 15 a m sunday price five cents hoyne puts triple guard on funk case documents prosecutor fears theft attempt on material evidence in con spiracy case preserved in the criminal courts building one of usual three guards said to have been approached by interests friendlyto defense six men now patrol room a plot backed by an enormous sum of money ami inspired from desperation was revealed yesterday to state's at torney maclaj hoyne and he instantly trebled the guard about his office leav ing three picked men heavily armed con stantlj on duty within and about the of fice at every moment of the twenty-four hours the plot is to tale by violence if nec essary every document in the prosecutor's office bearing on the so-called funk case the case in which attorney daniel dona hoe aileen heppusr and isaac steifel are charged with conspiracy to defame clarence s fur.k former general man aget of the international harvester com pany the case is intimately connected with the william lorlmer senatorial srandal the states attorney intimated that this plan to break into his office and blow open the safe has been ill consideration since the failure of attempts to influ ence bis direction of the prosecution of the conspirators in a statement issued last night to the newspapers mr hoyne declared positively that he knew of the existence of the plot to crush the prosecution by stealing the records and he added that the con jftracy is engineered either by the de fense or by the friends of the defense includes many interests the term friends o the defence in lude the interest which backed the ori ginal attack upon funk's character funk was sued by john c henning an ob scure hotel employe for alleged aliena tion of the affections of mrs henning it was proved overwhelmingly that funk knew nothing of mrs henuing and that the heuning suit originated in fraud henning disappeared just as the verdict was brought in and traveled secretly ibout the country always with plenty of money which is now believed to have ome from these same friends of the defense mr hoyne intimated that one of the men guarding his office had been ap proached with the purpose of learning whether access to the private office of the state's attorney might not be ob tained supposedly on some night was it the plan to blow open the bafe he was asked i have not learned that much so far he said that probably would be the last resort after other measures failed charges plot is known there is a deliberate plot on foot eaid state's attorney hoyue last night on the part of the defense or friends of the defense to abstract from the safe in the state's attorney's office the min utes of the grand jury in the aileen hep ner isaac steifel and daniel donahoe cases / tiie seriousness of this was so ap parent that i took cognisance of it and tool the proper steps to prevent it here tofore three policemen have been guard ing my office one being one duty each eivrht hours this guard has been in creased sii there are three there now ra eai-ii shift believes it safe now mr hoyne would not admit that he suspects any of the three guards who bare been stationed regularly at his of fice but the fact that one of them was approached and found honest is taken to indicate that others might also be ap proached and if the guard were sud denly changed for any reason a new comer might prove approachable but with three constantly on duty it is be lieved the office will be well protected both from violence and from dishonesty mr hoyne believes that the plan was to use dynamite if bribery failed only three persons besides himself he says know the combination of his safe he is fertain that none of the three could be influenced and the only recourse left would he the explosive stanley waterloo noted writer who died last night of pneumonia af ter being stricken at his club on wednesday von wied is out for throne of albania prince decides to make race for kingdom special cable to the examiner bucharest oct 11 after a lengthy interview with king charles to-day prince a'ou wied announced that he had decided to accept the uomiuatiou for the albanian throne it is expected that his candidacy will be received with mor favor than any of the others so far an nounced seek direct naming of u s president popular government league mem bers begin their campaign washington oct 11 the national popular government league began its publicity campaign here to-day the or ganization which is pledged to radical political reform was launched by sen ators chamberlain of oregon and meyers of montana representatives keating of colorado and other prominent legislators the league will campaign for the direct election of president and vice president an easier means of amending the consti tution mandatory direct primaries the preferential ballot and effective corrupt practices acts radium cost cut in half by mesothorium doctors find a substitute for most precious mineral itadiuui is getting cheap early in the present year says the journal ol the american medical asso ciation radium broinid sold at 105 per milligram in germany in july however sales were made in vienna at about half that price this startling drop the journal says is not due to an increased supply but to a decrease in the demand the doctors are using mesothorium at i2 a milli gramâ€”in place of radium waterloo dies at 67 after 3 days illaness author and journalist stricken by pneumonia while talking to opie read on genius round table one of last two survivors of noted circle leaves many works stanley waterloo died last night al most in the way he would have liked to die â€” for the transition from vigorous as sociation with his friends men of letters and adventure was a quick transition wednesday he was at the Chicago press club in his favorite corner chat ting with his old comrade in literature opie read discussing a little wistfully the work of the newer school of writers the youngsters and they took him away from the press club on a stretcher it was six o'clock last evening when he died it was pneumonia waterloo was sixty-seten years old for more than forty years he was active in literature iu big political movements in journalism in round table of genius there was in Chicago a distinct literary school of which waterloo was a mem ber it was composed of men brilliant of mind kindly of heart quick of wit and sympathy bohemian in the mean ing that the word possessed before the multitude of unthinking imitators made a mendacious label of it stanley waterloo was a charter mem ber of that informal gronp among the others were kugene field james whit comb riley opie read will visscher charles g seymour ben king â€” a round table of genius with the passage of years the gronp diminished until the remnants of it coul;l be seated at the smallest tables in the restaurants where they once had crowded each other opie read an.t waterloo were the survivors now read is the survivor left alone with the youngsters they were soberly talking of water loo last night at the press club looking over the row of his books in the library â€” a han and a woman an odd situa tion the story of ah honest money armagedon the wolk's long howl the launching of a man the seekers 1 the story of a strange career these are my jewels a record of labor and art incomplete though it is started as reporter and they spoke a little less intimately of his poetry â€” because waterloo had an other attitude toward poetry it was the language in which he told things to him self it was something sacred and secret he seldom published his verses and many of them he would not even show to his friends he started in Chicago just after his graduation from the university of mich igan that was in 18g9 for two years he worked in Chicago as a reporter later he owned the journal in st louis he sold that and afterward edited suc cessively the republic the chronicle and the globe-democrat in st louis he founded the st paul minu day but disposed of it to come back to Chicago funeral is planned Chicago was his habitat however au'i of late years the Chicago press club has been almost home to him twice ho has been its president the first time be ing in 1893 the year of the world's fair the press club will have a major part in the funeral services and the body will be buried in the press club lot at mount hope cemetery miss ada c sweet manager of the woman's department of the equitable life assurance society was one of wa terloo's best friends and she is in charge ot the body a press club committee will assist her flames spread over springfield business center half million loss in first hour of dangerous biaze fire men are hurt springfield 111 oct 12 fire shortly after midnight destroyed the s mendenhall building at the corner of seventh and adams streets in the heart of the downtown district it spread to adjoining buildings and caused a loss of half a million dollars the flames could not be controlled when the walls of the mendenhall build ing fell with i thunderous noise the great crowd which had gathered surged back and several persons were slightly injured several firemen were hurt but there were no fatalities reported the flre destroyed the james a jones building the johnson-hatcher store on the west and gutted the m j bartel building next to the jones building the smoke and flre also did tremendous dam age to the john bressmer company's stock at 1 o'clock it looked like the east sec tion of the business district was in danger new body of land in arctic discovered head of russian government ex plorers reports find st michael alaska oct 11 the russian goverament steamers taimyr and waygatch under commander willt sky which have been engaged iu arctic exploration north of siberia for three years arrived here to-day for coal cap tain wilitsky reports the discovery of a body of land as large as greenland ex tending beyond latitude 81 north and longitude 102 east king honors marconi and d'annunzio inventor and poet are appointed to senate special cable to the examiner rome oct 11 guglielmo marconi inventor of wireless telegraphy and ga brielle d'annuuzi thte world-renowned poet and dramatist have been honored by king victor for their illustrious work by appoiutnient as senators others in the list of fifty new senators named by the king are military and naval duets who distinguished themselves in the war with turkey the office of senator has a life tenure man 105 credits rye bread and milk polish blacksmith gives rule of health at birthday party lazarus finkelsteiu celebrated his 105th birthday yesterday he welcomed five sons four daughters twenty-four grand children and thirty-two great-grandchil dren at his home 218 south seeley avenue i eeldom eat other than rye bread and milk he said i was born in poland and worked as a blacksmith we never had rich foods i attribute my long life to eating sparingly mr fiukelstein came to Chicago forty years ago taxis take cabby's living from him old-time driver in court for non support tells judge the reason edward dolan old-time cabby brought before judge l'hlir in the court of domestic relations charged with non support of his second wife and fifteen year-old daughter said the taxicab had put him out of business dr anna dwyer court physician found husband and wife victims of tuberculosis and un able to work mrs dolan was consigned to the catholic charities and dolan was ordered to return to his son's home at 1430 west fiftieth street one dying opponent shot in street duel archer avenue and cana street scene of shooting anthony dingo 256 west twenty-third place was shot and probably fatally wounded and michael alasl was shot in the jaw last night in a revolver duel at archer avenue and south canal street huerta by arrest of foes is dictator machine guns moved to palace i and troops patrol capital i n j fear calm caused by thej shock may break into storm provisional president's action in dissolving the chamber of deputies gives him apparent advantage over felix diaz special cable to the examiner mexico city oct 11 provisional president victoriano huerta is to-night dictator of mexico his action dissolv ing the chamber of deputies and arrest ing all deputies except those allied with the catholic party has given him the sole power of government of the republic mexico city has recovered from the shoclc of huerta's latest coup and to night a calm has settled over the cap ital by many it is felt to be the calm before the storm but what the effect of a storm would be no person here dares proplesy tonight the leading question to-night is what will felix diaz do when he arrives at vera cruz and is informed of the con dition v by imprisoning all but the catholic deputies huerta has clearly indicated that he will support the candidacy of gamboa at the presidential election october 2g in the meantime diaz is neartng mexican shores and has announced he will be a candidate for president with the support of huerta who con trols the government and political machin ery of practically every state except those in the north which seceded gamboa's election is assured improves gamboa's chances the privateiy expressed opinion of a prominent mexican politician is that hu erta seized upon this opportunity to dis solve the chamber as the only means of throwing the majority of the political power into his own hands thus enabling him to elect gamboa by an overwhelming majority huerta believes that such au election will indicate that the larger por tion of tlie republic has been pacified and allowed to express itself freely at the polls as there will not be sufficient time to hold elections to elect new depu ties before october 6 there will be no chamber of deputies to investigate the election or to interfere with auy plaus the administration may have the families and friends of the impris oned deputies are gravely concerned over what disposition will be made of the prisoners but huerta has several times assured all that he will guarantee that no physical harm comes to them the penitentiary is surrounded t>y a heavy military guard the city is quiet to-night morp so than it has been for many months hundreds of police and soldiers both infantry and cavalry are patroling the streets pre pared to put down any uprising rapid-fire guns at palace the rapid-fire guns which were placed in the palace last february and later withdrawn were returned to-day on every hand there is evidence that the government is prepared to resist any in surgent movement all newspapers issued in the city to-day either remained strictly impartial in their discussion of the event or were strongly sympathetic with the huerta policy minister of foreign affairs moheuo who was the leader of the government deputies until hu^rta offered him a place in the cabinet said to-night that huerta took his action against the deputies when it was learned that there was a plot afoot in the chamber to put huerta out | of the way and allow a revolution iu the i north to triumph rly to-day a great throng surged about i the chamber from which the deputies j were v.nceremoniously taken last uigut j but after looking at the windows for a i time the crowd gradually melted away i there was no demonstration owing to the presence of a large guard of troops deputies reported freed vf.ita cruz mexico oct 11 au un confirmed report reached here to-night from mexico city that the 110 deputies arrested and imprisoned laat night oy j orders of president huerta have been set i free feeling is reported as running very j high in the capital to-day following the j circulation of the report of the investi i gation of the murder of senator doinin | guez and the publication of excerpts from the speech denouncing huerta which h delivered on the day before his disap pearancs king alfonso is mysteriously hurt special cable to the examiner madkid oct 11 that tng alfonso is suffering fioin a mysterious injury of tiie leg became known to-day the kiug could not attend the state ball in honor of president poineare at carthageua oa sino because of his injury city series note no session of the federal grand jury was held yesterday various men ou the grand jury stated friday that they had business affairs at their domes that they wished to attend to and at their sug gestion adjournment was taken until holiday list of cabin passengers on board burned steamship paptain barr the rostron of the v volturno disaster who came to the res cue of burning ship with the carmania antoine armande eleven antoine a eleven eberle hedwig forty-eight farber jossel fifteen friedman hinde nineteen krug john thirty-two krug frieda twenty-nine kaplan esther nineteen mrzygod marriana seventeen reimer rubin aged twenty sabfin michael forty-seven sabfin leibe fifty-four , tepper carl forty-five tepper hode sixteen tepper berl fourteen tepper emma nine tepper tarke eight facts and figures in loss of volturno in fire at sea rj->otal number of persons on â– *â– board turned vessel first cabin passengers 24 steerage passengers 540 crew 93 total 657 rescued by ten liners 521 missing 13s the vessels carrying survivors are due approximately as fol loios krtjonland at new york oct 16 rappahannock at st john oct 16 carmania at liverpool oct 12 la touraine at havre oct 12 minneapolis at london . oct 13 czar at rotterdam oct 14 narragansett freighter at london oct 17 devonian at liverpool ... oct 14 grosser kurfurst at bre men oct 15 seydlitz freighter destination uncertain the first call of the volturno was we are on fire and will have to abandon ship can hold on for a while s o s the s o s call wag heard by the carmania seventy-eight miles away and by other ship's within the zone and answered it was sent out about 8 o'clock thursday morning the car mania made twenty miles an hour through the storm and was there at noon the grosser kurfurst and the s^yrlitz a german tramp reached her at 4 o'clock seven other ships â€” la touraine minneapolis rappahancock gzar narragansett devonian and kroonlnd â€” reached her by night time the passengers were taken off and more than 500 lives saved on friday it was possible only through the use of the wireless crisis at hand in woodruff's illness condition of new yorker is de clared very grave xf.w york oct 11 the condition of timothy l fl oodruff who was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago was re ported tonight to be very grave my father is now ou the verge of a grave crisis and one which perhaps will last three or lour days said john l woodruff son of the sick man to-night we of course sincerely hope that he will pass safely through t;.is crisis f m moore arrested for taking away son chicagoan is released after being detained in new york nsw yoitk out 11 ferdinand m moore of Chicago traveling with his five-year-old sou alfred and on the way to brazil where his father owns a rubber plantation was arrested on his arrival here to-day on advices from the Chicago chief of police october 8 statins that moore is wanted there for taking away the boy without the mother's per mission moore was amazed at his arrest and explained that everything was lovely at home that his wife was perfectly will ing the toy should go on the trip and that she herself was to follow to brazil to rejoin the family in a year he added that since the eig hth of the month he and the boy had been seeing the sights | at buffalo and n:agara falls the first steamer leaving october lu Chicago was notified but no answer from the police there had come up to mldnipht so at that hour magistrate house in the night court ordered the re lease of moore and his son who went to a hotel to remain until the steamer sails president has neuralgia washington oct 11 i'resiiient wilson remained in the white house ti day denying himself to all cullers as be was suffering from a slight attack of neuralgia he was attended by dr cary 521 rescued by wireless 1 36 die as liner burns s o s summons ten ships to res cue carmania takes off sur vivors in raging storm and will reach queenstown to-day crowded lifebÂ®ats are smashed against side of vessel oil boat helps to still waters lost ship not up to u s safety standard special cable to the examiner ' - liverpool oct 11 â€” one hundred and thirty-six persons lost their lives when the steamship vol turno of the uranium line was destroyed at sea on friday after having been on fire for twenty-four hours ten steamships surrounded the volturno for sixteen hours while the fire raged at its height but none of the rescue fleet was able to lend assistance owing to the terrific storm the volturno sailed from rotterdam for new york via halifax on october 2 she carried twenty-four cabin passen gers 540 steerage and a crew of ninety-three of the 657 known to have been on board 521 have been reported saved by the ten vessels the greatest loss of life occurred when four of the volturno's six life boats were dashed to pieces against the side of the vessel a few mo ments c.fter they were launched other lifeboats launched from the rescue fleet were also crushed by the waves calm after explosion early friday morning a terrific explosion in the volturno's boiler room almost rent the vessel in ha when this occurred the passengers on the stricken ship believed they were doomed while the captains of the vessels which had rushed to the rescue could see little chance of saving those on the burning ship suddenly the gale abated and the sea calmeu considerably within a few moments a score of lifeboats had been launched from the vessels standing by and were rushing to ward the stern of the volturno where the passengers and crew were huddled against the rail when the volturno was abandoned friday morning she was seen to be grad ually sinking her position was then about 900 miles northeast of cape race and close to the spot where the ttitanic sank eighteen months ago never before has such a disaster been witnessed by so many spec tators hundreds see disaster huddled on the eight ocean liners a german tramp and a standard oil tank steamer which heard the volturno's s o s distress call by wireless were several hundred persons who unmindful of the bit ing cold of the gale and the danger from the huge waves which crashed over the vessels remained on deck throughout the afternoon and night to watch the fire all during thursday night one searchlight from the cunarder car mania was kept steadily on the vol turno while another played over the ten vessels that surrounded the stricken ship the cries of those on the volturno were carried by the gale and the passengers on all of the other vessels could see the women and children huddled close to the volturno's after rail while the men stood nearer the fire gets wireless call that so many were rescued from the volturno was due to the prompt efficient work of captain barr of the carmania the wireless opera tor on the carmania picked up a i faint xal 1 range of temperature yesterday sxill\&/j3 highest 69 q j n lowest .~ 4g w^^^*si_4s average 58 b